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...Maurice Greenberg, who over four decades built one of the world's largest global insurance companies and became an industry icon from Shanghai to New York, was dragged down by the same defiance that had made him so successful. Over 17 years, Greenberg inched American International Group (AIG) into China, even as critics said he would never open that market. Today China is one of AIG's most promising regions. Yet Greenberg's success was accompanied by arrogance. He thought nothing of dressing down an analyst who asked tough questions, and when AIG came under siege early this year--accused...
...conclusions are talk show host Bill O’Reilly (Kennedy School of Government MPA Class of 1996) and Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei, who responds by opening a copy of the file named “Fatwa.doc” on his iMac and hitting the print icon...
...must be thrilling to assume command of Sony, a luminous icon of Japan's postwar recovery. Thrilling, and perhaps sobering. Howard Stringer read history at Oxford, and now he is making it as the latest in a short list of Westerners to be installed as chief executive of a Japanese corporation. Doubtless, Stringer is aware that the significance of his promotion extends beyond Sony to the larger context of the convulsive changes that are transforming the landscape of Japanese society...
...Japanese culture. A subcommittee involved in the revision recently submitted proposals that recommended, for example, restoring Shinto to a privileged, state-funded religion; banning books "that have a detrimental effect on young people's upbringing"; and limiting freedom of assembly. But Stringer's appointment suggests that at least one icon of modern Japan is prepared to take the second course, and open up even more to the world...